The New Chevy KITTY LOC8TOR

By the name sounds a little bizarre right? Well its purpose is everything but to find your kitty (Sorry all you cat lovers out there).

How many times have you spent the day at the mall, sporting event, or even your office only to find that you’ve forgotten where it was you parked? Honestly, I can’t say that I’ve ever really encountered this situation. Sure, I might be off by a row when I go looking for my car, but I can’t remember a single time where I found myself wandering around a parking lot in search of my vehicle. However, for those of you that find yourself spending more time looking for your car than you do driving it, you’ll be happy to know that Chevy is looking out for you.

The KITTY LOC8TOR is a gadget inside your car that sits there, waiting for the day that you suffer from amnesia while shopping in the mall. You press a button on your keychain and the base unit in your car will make any number of noises to let you know where to go. The best part is that you can record your own message to be amplified throughout the entire parking lot. You know that pranksters everywhere will have a heyday with this one.

This interesting little gadget will be available in upcoming Chevy vehicles, though we’re not sure when it will be available, or what the premium will be. Thankfully they have given us some insight into their wonderful little acronym. KITTY stands for Key Innovation That Talks to You. How fascinating.

Extraordinary Turn Around Saves Green for Verizon

After many analysis of market, Verizon's light turned on at the opportunity of Google's new Android software platform launch. This platform allows phone providers to have an open network. Verizon saw that this would bring a plethora of benefits to the company and to new customers. Its a big turn around for the mobile giant since their network and devices were locked making it expensive for small companies to develop Verizon's unique applications for all of their phones they purchase. Among its benefits of this upgrade:

• It will allow users from other providers to switch to Verizon with out having to spend too much in getting them or for customers to buy a new phone.
• Since they will not have technical support for devices and applications not offered by Verizon, it will cut costs this additional support, instead they will encourage the customers to contact their device or application provider.
• Potentially allow millions of more customers for the company easily.
• Have a standardized development of the nearly 800 applications and services provided by Verizon and implement them in many new devices that Verizon didn't have to purchase because they were already purchased by the new customer that switched to the network.

It seems as Verizon doesn't want to be left behind since Sprint and T-Mobile where among the first ones in the line to support Google's Android. Verizon just couldn't bear to see their competition getting ahead of them on this opportunity of gaining low-cost customers. Their Chief of Operations Officer, McAdam, laid out this plan to his managers and they were pretty impressed while others where surprised exclaiming " Wow, that's a big turning point ".

All of this makes sense because looking at the cell phone business in Europe, it's a free-for-all type of business and they have great success with customers switching from other providers and lowering costs in devices and applications for them since developers don't have to make different variations for each provider. Even Verizon's father Vodafone is in an open network. So with everyone going for these extra profit upgrades, th the peer pressure escalated so high that on Nov. 27 Verizon publicly announced their plans on giving in to the company's biggest provider policy turn around in history!